Customized CyberPower PC - Wanting expert's thoughts....

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Good Afternoon,

I just customized a build through CyberPower PC's website and I wanted to get some feedback.

My Objectives: Build a PC that will be mainly used for gaming while at home. My desire is to not to have to do much to the system over the next couple of years (hoping for at least 2 and more is always better.I want to do VR but will likely wait until later in the year. My focus is to get premium quality (4k at ultra or close to it) and feel comfortable I will enjoy my purchase into 2020 without feeling like I have been totally left behind.

About me: I am a gadget nerd, but have never built my own PC. I would like to one-day do it, but my time/ability is limited and Id rather customize for now and then accomplish a labor of love on the next rig. I dont intend to do any crazy overclocking - though I like to ability to up my performance at least for a modest, stable overclock to ensure performance in the future.

What I am seeking here: Feedback. Are there glaring holes or issues with the build? Did I really drop the ball? Am I meeting up above-stated objective? Just curious what actual experts and people in the know think.

Chasis:: CYBERPOWERPC X-Saber 520 Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0, Large Side Panel Window (Black)
CPU: Intel Core Processor i7-7700K 4.20GHZ 8MB (Kaby Lake)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Superclocked ACX 3.0 Edition 8GB GDDR5X (Pascal)
RAM: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (Patriot Viper Elite)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 ATX
POWERSUPPLY: 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler w/ PWM fan
HD_M2SSD: 128GB Intel® SSD 600p Series PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD - 1800MB/s Read & 560MB/s Write (Single Drive)
HDD: 240GB SanDisk Z410 SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive)
RAM: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (Patriot Viper Elite)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 ATX
POWERSUPPLY: 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
Optical Drive: LG 14X Internal Blu-ray Burner, BD-RE, 3D Playback DVD+RW Combo Drive


Thanks for any feedback in advance
 
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A GTX 1080 would have no issues with 1440p, a year from now. CPU's have not been progressing all that much, the past few gens. Plenty of people still using sandy and ivy bridge builds. I only went to a 6700k because I wanted an i7, and M.2 support. My 3570k was still performing quite well, in gaming. The $1200 Titan X Pascal is not worth its price tag, leaving you with the very fast GTX 1080 still.
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Blu-ray player was already a part of the system - I kept it just in case I wanted to play a few movies or if I actually bought hard-disk media (very rare, but just in case).
 
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#1 - Thanks for response and compliment. I tried to format it for it to make sense.

#2 - Not sure how much the drive cost as I didnt check to have it "removed" I decided to keep it for the sake of having an internal one.

#3 - Overall price was almost exactly $2,000 (including shipping, taxes, etc.)
 
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ndbigdave

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Why is the Hyper a bad idea for the i7? I honestly dont know. I did reviews of the unit and it was highly rated, but I honestly dont know if another would be preferable.

I do agree I dont have particularly large SSDs - but I also dont/wont have an extensive game collection so hoping that it wont be an issue.

I am holding my breath as I do keep reading negative reviews about CyberPowerPC... see negatives, but then a lot of positives too (perhaps from people who dont know better?
 
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4k is still out of reach, with that budget. I would recommend 1440p. Still look much better than 1080p, but doesn't require SLI GTX 1080, or pascal titan X to achieve ultra.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($343.33 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($56.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock Z270 Extreme4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($145.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Intel 600p Series 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($169.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($67.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($559.89 @ B&H)
Case: Deepcool KENDOMEN Red ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1728.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-13 15:21 EST-0500

The 212 is a budget cooler, better suited to i5's. We have had a fair number of cyberpower issues here.
 
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While cyberpower is not a bad company per se it isn't a great one. My experiences with the company are through my brother, He had a 4 year warranty in the time frame he was without his computer for 2 weeks as he had to send it in to get the power supply replaced and he would have had to send it in if I was not willing to replace the faulty stick of ram. The power supply was one that they chose not specifically selected, but cyberpower offered to ship both parts to him to do the maintenance. If you are willing to do the repairs yourself then its not terrible but if you are willing to do the repairs yourself you could build the pc yourself. I also would not have them overclock the processor or the GPU for you. The customer service also left something to be desired.

a single 1080 will give playable performance in 4k but you may need to dial back some of the details on games out currently. an I would recommend 2x8GB of ram.
 
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Thank you for the feedback and the suggestion. I definitely want to build my own in the future. Perhaps my request of 4k and Ultra settings was a bit overstating things. 1440 may definitely more reasonable on my budget, though I was also hoping that more and more games will optimize for the 1080 type card/Pascal. The main thing was having a powerful machine that shouldnt be left in the dust in just a year and will play the games beautifully at 1080p and beyond with most settings set near Ultra or high.
 
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Specs like that won't be left in the dust in 3 years or more.
 
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Thanks for the heads up. Depending on what the issue(s) may be in the future I dont mind attempting at least some fixes (faulty RAM wouldnt be an issue).

I have no clue (other than it must be cheaper for them) to do the 4x4 with the RAM rather than 2x8. I was not familiar with the brand either until I did some digging and was pleasantly surprised at the reviews I found.
 
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Thanks for putting fears at rest.

I am the first to admit and know the tech is always improving and going forward, but I dont want to spend 2,000 today and then feel by this time next year that my machine is far behind and not capable of rendering the top AAA titles near excellent settings (again 4k on Ultra may be overstating my true desire). I also wanted to make sure there were glaring issues with poor hardware choices (motherboard, GPU/CPU/PSU
 
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I've owned 2 Cyberpower PCs, never really had any problems with them. My current system is one of their Arcus 34 systems, it's basically a 34" ultradwide monitor with an ITX motherboard stuck to the back of it. I kind of had buyer's remorse a few months in.. it's a solid system but I think I just would have preferred a separate case and separate monitor. It has an EVGA 1070 FTW and I've been able to play pretty much every game with max settings. It's not 4K though, but more than HD.. it's 3440x1440.

It's a lot of money so you should feel good about who you're buying from. If you're worried about Cyberpower, there's plenty of others out there. I've never owned them, but I've heard good things about Origin PC and also IBuyPower
 
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A GTX 1080 would have no issues with 1440p, a year from now. CPU's have not been progressing all that much, the past few gens. Plenty of people still using sandy and ivy bridge builds. I only went to a 6700k because I wanted an i7, and M.2 support. My 3570k was still performing quite well, in gaming. The $1200 Titan X Pascal is not worth its price tag, leaving you with the very fast GTX 1080 still.
 
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Makes sense.

I went with the i7-770 mainly because it was the latest (I couldnt help myself even with the limited benefit over last gen) and then I wanted the "newer" 270 boards. As for GPU I knew I wanted to go high end, but assumed the 1080 would be more powerful without the need of SLI, In what may be largely wishful thinking (with some educated guess built in) that an overclocked 1080 would produce even better results over time as games started to take advantage of the card and more DirectX12 goodies by having the current top of the line.
 
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Thanks for the note.

I feel "ok" with buying from CyberPower, they have been good via chat thus far and I see many of their devices sold on Amazon, Ebay, BestBuy with favorable reviews - while also reading some horror stories.

The 4k threshold was more about future proofing a bit, I figured if the rig could play AAA titles basically maxed out now, then in a year or two it should still be doing well even if I have to turn certain settings down (which I am comfortable with). Then down the line - because I am using the latest Intel processor and the latest type motherboard (z270 even if not top of the line) that I could play with components as time goes by (upgrade the RAM, even upgrade the GPU if totally necessary) while keeping other components the same.
 
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That's because the people posting favorable reviews of these systems generally post them a couple of days after receiving them before buyer's remorse kicks in. You don't really see reviews like that when people have owned systems a year or two out. That's usually when the problems start. I've read way too many horror stories about Cyberpower in my years on here to even remotely consider them as an option.
 
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